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A clever play on words, this line has multiple meanings. Shad’s style is crazier than those from the movie “Van Wilder”, a comedy about college parties. Also, the crowd flips like they were a Vans skateboard, where several tricks involve flipping the skateboard. Playing back to the pop culture names dealing with the word “Wild”, which is the title of this song.

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A reference to the previous line, Game believes that in the continuous cycle of life a person has to die before a new one can come into the world.

Many rappers have used similar lines before, going back to Nas in “Nas Is Like”, where he said “Freedom or jail, clip’s inserted, a baby’s being born/
Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end”

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The music the Clan creates inspires other artists through the passion, creativity, and skill that each member brings to the table. Their music inspires children to get up and be part of something bigger than them. Remember, in the immortal words of Ol' Dirty Bastard,

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This is an example of the line earlier in this song, “You are what you eat, I was fed the streets”. While XO might not have been a thief, he was with them when they stole. When he might not have been a killer, he was with them when they killed. This can shape a young man, with so much exposure to the streets it is almost impossible to separate yourself.

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All 4 of these movies, Star Wars, Planet of the Apes, Avatar, and The Matrix were about rebellions.

In the Star Wars movies, the rebellion tried to fight back against the evil forces that were controlling the galaxy.

In Planet of the Apes, the apes originally fought back against the human race who had enslaved them, and eventually the humans had to fight back against the apes who now ran their world.

Avatar was about an alien species rebelling against the humans who came to essentially destroy their planet.

The Matrix trilogy was about the human rebellion fighting back against the machines that ruled the humans and imprisoned them inside a fake world.

All of these movies were about rebellion, and in all of them (except Planet of the Apes) the “good” side overcame the evil. XO is foreshadowing a rebellion about to take place for him and his people, fighting against those who are enslaving them.

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A common idiom, “You are what you eat”, meaning that whatever you are exposed to will shape who you become. From a young age, XO was exposed to the streets. Whether he likes it or not, the streets have shaped him in both positive and negative ways.